Acreage Held in Trust for Individual Indians and Indian
Tribes, by State, in 1995
The federal government holds 52.3 million acres in trust for individual Indians and
Indian tribes in 33 states. The following table shows the number of acres held in the
Mountain States for this purpose.
State Number of acres
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Arizona 18,843,819
Colorado 1,076,890
Idaho 836,758
Montana 5,286,101
Nevada 934,956
New Mexico 7,650,579
Utah 3,720,076
Wyoming 1,812,611
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Total 52,287,510
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Notes: This acreage includes federal trust, tribal/restricted
fee, and/or government lands. Federal trust lands are those whose
title is held by the United States in trust for individual Indians or
Indian tribes. Tribal/restricted fee lands are those whose title is
held by individual Indians or tribes. Government lands consist of a
small amount of acreage owned by the United States for special uses
such as federal schools and hospitals for Native Americans and for
administrative offices. The amount of acreage was provided as of
November 7, 1995, for Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana,
Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Rhode
Island, and South Carolina. The amount of acreage for the remaining
states was as of September 15, 1995.
Source: Land Ownership: Information on the Acreage,
Management, and Use of Federal and Other Lands (Letter Report,
03/13/96, GAO/RCED-96-40). Full text of report available from
General
Accounting Office (GAO) Reports.
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